Forward Deployment Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable connectors for client systems, ad platforms, CRM applications, POS systems, and third-party APIs.
• Build scalable ingestion pipelines and integration frameworks; own connector development, versioning, enhancement, deployment, support, and maintenance.
• Develop REST API integrations using OAuth, API keys, pagination, and rate limiting; manage schema evolution, data mapping, compatibility, and validation.
• Provide production reliability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability; troubleshoot integration issues and complex business requirements.
• Collaborate with data strategists, product managers, client technical teams, and stakeholders to onboard client data sources.
• Improve platform scalability, efficiency, reliability, and performance; implement monitoring, logging, and metrics frameworks.
• Follow security, deployment automation, documentation, testing, and code-quality practices; contribute to architecture improvements and production stability.

Experience and qualifications

• 8–14 years in data engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, or backend development.
• Strong hands-on Python and data integration framework expertise; experience building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-scale connectors.
• Experience with REST APIs, OAuth, API key management, pagination, rate limiting, ETL/ELT, workflow orchestration, and ingestion pipelines.
• Advanced SQL for data validation, troubleshooting, transformation, and optimization.
• Experience with Apache Airflow, dbt, or equivalent orchestration tools; strong understanding of Git-based version control and connector lifecycle management.
• Experience with schema evolution, metadata management, data mapping, and backward compatibility.
• Experience implementing observability using Datadog, ELK Stack, Grafana, or similar platforms, and hands-on Docker/container deployment.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, communication, and documentation skills; able to work with clients and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple client integrations and parallel initiatives; ownership, automation, operational excellence, and platform reliability are emphasized.

Work arrangement

• The description says Persistent supports hybrid work and flexible hours.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package, quarterly growth opportunities, and company-sponsored higher education and certifications.
• Flexible work hours, employee engagement initiatives, annual health check-ups, and insurance coverage for the employee and specified family members.
• The company describes an accessibility-friendly office with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies.